Blogs Posts on "Australian History"
Byron Bay Lighthouse at sunset by Digital Photo Gallery of Ted Szukalski on Nov 2, 2009Photograph: Byron Bay Lighthouse Photographer: Ted Szukalski.document.write('Click on the photograph to see a bigger version and exposure details.'); There is no visit to Byron Bay without climbing few meters of the Cape Byron to the Lighthouse.
Byte 19: The Great Southern Land Bites Back – Discovery 1606 by Scribbling Bytes of History on Aug 11, 2009So we come to 1603 and a Dutchman named Willem Janszoon. In the last years before the formation of the Dutch East India Company he set sail for the East Indies as the captain of the Duyfken. This ship was a lightly armed Barque 65 feet in length wit...
Byte 17: Enter the Dutch – Power without Glory – 1602 by Scribbling Bytes of History on Jul 17, 2009We have reached the early 1600’s on our journey in search of the Land Down Under… No longer is Asia a lonely place for Europeans. The seas are gradually being tamed, but what of the locals and the competition? The year 1602 is especially...
Byte 15: Move over France & England – the Portuguese Really Discovered Australia! – 1522 by Scribbling Bytes of History on Jul 6, 2009João de Barros sits down to write a manuscript about the Portuguese in India and Asia around 1550, and some 225 years later a Mr John Mason, of Belfast, rides along the coast of Southern Australia near Warrnambool. What is the connection? Well, it...
Byte 15: Quick Poll – Who Landed First? by Scribbling Bytes of History on Jul 2, 2009A question based on our story so far. Which European country do you think reached Australia’s shores first? Deliberately or accidentally. Let’s see what you are thinking so far….blog some reasons if you have time…. We will t...
Byte 14: Time to Spice it Up -1500-1550 by Scribbling Bytes of History on Jul 2, 2009So here we are in the first half of the 1500’s and our story centers around the Spice Islands. We have the Portuguese, the Spanish and the French on stage, with the British and the Dutch soon to make their entrance. Not far to the sou...
Byte 13: The French & Captain Cook’s Secret Map – 1530-1570 by Scribbling Bytes of History on Jun 24, 2009So Guillaume Le Testu (c. 1512- 1573), a Frenchman, was the first European to discover Australia! Possible – may be – perhaps, but not likely is the considered view. Although lets did a little deeper into the story… Testu was one...
Byte 12: Introducing the Great Southern Land & its People by Scribbling Bytes of History on Jun 5, 2009A little about the history of the Great Southern Land…. Australia, as we now know it, covers some 3 million square miles (7.7 million square kilometres) of land. It is thought that in a period of lower sea levels (70-40,000 years), when Australia w...
Byte 11: Discovery – Spanish & Portuguese – 1500-1550 by Scribbling Bytes of History on Jun 4, 2009With their East African and Indian positions established the Portuguese continue to the east, past India reaching Sumatra, Borneo, the Celebes, Java and then the Spice Islands (Moluccas). It is 1511 in our voyage of discovery. However, the Spanis...
Byte 10: Beginnings:The English Take to the Oceans – 1350-1450 by Scribbling Bytes of History on Jun 4, 2009As we have seen, the Spanish and the Portuguese have moved out into the Indian Ocean on their journeys of discovering. Soon the English and the Dutch will enter our south sea adventure and in the process the English will create arguably one of the mo...
